I remember both of these saying that while they may offer premium services at some point in the future the downloading of the latest documents would always be free. Well now Duedil are advertising all Companies House documents available on their site but you can no longer download the latest accounts for free. CompanyCheck will now only allow you to download 5 documents.
I think it was Duedil that made a big fuss about how they existed to provide this information to the public and they had received funding to make this possible. A bit like Wikileaks wanting information in the public domain.
I'm just a bit annoyed at both of them - although I suppose all along I knew this day was coming and it would never remain free.
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I think this is the same for a lot of Cos (in all industries) give people a great opportunity to get them hooked and then bump up the charges.
I have used Bizzy in the past, after your first purchase they usually send you an offer of something in the region of £20 to cover download of unlimited docs for a year, which I personally think is very good value, I just haven't gotten round to taking up the offer yet!
And the same with professional bodies.... I'll shut up now before I get thrown out of mine!
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I think this is the same for a lot of Cos (in all industries) give people a great opportunity to get them hooked and then bump up the charges.
I have used Bizzy in the past, after your first purchase they usually send you an offer of something in the region of £20 to cover download of unlimited docs for a year, which I personally think is very good value, I just haven't gotten round to taking up the offer yet!
I'd take them up on that offer. Just have this fear of buying something and not getting that offer.
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I spoke to duedil about it.. They clearly said that they would never charge for anything they already offered free. Their response.... the PDF's were getting old!!! They're historical documents, of course they get old!
I think this is the same for a lot of Cos (in all industries) give people a great opportunity to get them hooked and then bump up the charges.
I have used Bizzy in the past, after your first purchase they usually send you an offer of something in the region of £20 to cover download of unlimited docs for a year, which I personally think is very good value, I just haven't gotten round to taking up the offer yet!
I'd take them up on that offer. Just have this fear of buying something and not getting that offer.
I get similar offers through from them randomly now and again so I'll see if I can either find an old email or alert people if an email drops into my inbox.
Wouldn't advise buying anything 'on spec' as I am sure it was a good couple of months before the first flyer came through
I see a tweet from Companies Check saying you can download 100 company accounts per user per month for free. Now, I'm not saying this is a direct result of me moaning on here about it. It may be a mere coincidence they've changed their mind over the past couple of weeks. Draw your own conclusions.
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Whilst the actual accounts maybe a year out of date on DueDil you can still get the figures on the financials page.
I also find the ability to see which companies a director also has an interest in as being really useful.
For nosey people like me it's the notes that accompany the accounts I find interesting.
I do like to have a look at the quality of the submitted accounts as well, mainly out of idle curiosity, particularly on new clients from another firm.
It is interesting how often you see accounts that don't comply with Comapnies Act, mainly using out of date terminology.
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No need to draw conclusions. We saw your post and had a roundtable about what we did and why we did it. The reasons for the limitation were because we wanted to put a cap on those who we felt were using a lot of resource and by putting a limit on of 5 and a small monthly fee we could continue to offer the service to the majority of our free users.
After some discussion and analysis of the data, we decided that we could increase the limit and remove the basic account. This has led to more Pro sign ups and positive feedback from those wanting only free accounts and for them 100 seems to be more than acceptable.
I hope that makes it clear and that you continue to use and benefit from our service.
We don't differentiate between free and paid accounts with the data quality or timings.
All users get up to date data.
Is that what you meant?
I think now we are probably the only provider of volume data due to recent changes at a competitor....and I'm looking at ways of making that easier to access and more useful.
Our new site goes live soon which is responsive and looks better. Its a better experience visually and practically so I look forward to your feedback.
